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Carlos Saura
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Spanish photographer and film director (1932–2023)
OverviewAI-generated
Carlos Saura was a filmmaker whose professional career began in 1955 and concluded in 2023. He was active in his field until at least 2016. Saura was born on January 4, 1932, and died on February 10, 2023. He had seven children.
His work is represented in the Golden Bear collection. Two of his works are recorded in the Europeana database.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Carlos
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Huesca
- Place of death
- Collado Mediano
- Spouse
- Eulàlia Ramon
- Sibling
- Antonio Saura
- Occupation
- filmmaker
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Notable work
- La prima Angélica
- Field of work
- photography
- Image
- Premios Goya 2018 - Carlos Saura.jpg
- Number of children
- 7
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- related category
- Category:Films directed by Carlos Saura
- date of birth
- 1932-01-04
- Commons category
- Carlos Saura
- unmarried partner
- Geraldine Chaplin
- name in native language
- Carlos Saura Atarés
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- cause of death
- respiratory failure
- start of work period
- 1955-00-00
- floruit
- 2016-01-01
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- date of death
- 2023-02-10
- end of work period
- 2023-00-00
- manner of death
- natural causes
Sources (15)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Carlos Saura, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Carlos Saura Atarés (4 January 1932 – 10 February 2023) was a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. With Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar, he is considered to be among Spain's great filmmakers. He had a long and prolific career that spanned over half a century, and his films won many international awards.
Saura began his career in 1955 making documentary shorts. He gained international prominence when his first feature-length film premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 1960. Although he started filming as a neorealist, Saura switched to films encoded with metaphors and symbolism in order to get around the Spanish censors. In 1966, he was thrust into the international spotlight when his film The Hunt won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. In the following years, he forged an international reputation for his cinematic treatment of emotional and spiritual responses to repressive political conditions.
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